Archie & Gang To Live Again In Zombie Movie Series

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Archie & Gang To Live Again In Zombie Movie Series

By Karen Malmquist

THE BETTY-VERONICA-ARCHIE LOVE SQUAD is about to get bloody-thirsty.

Archie Comics is jumping on the zombie bandwagon with an upcoming Afterlife with Archie live-action movie series, to be directed by Pitch Perfect‘s Jason Moore and written by Glee writer Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa. Warner Bros. will produce the series, presumed to be a spin-off from Aquirre-Sacasa’s Archie zombie comic series.

The movie will be set in present-day Riverdale with Archie, Betty and Veronica…presumably fighting or peacefully coexisting with the undead. The big question raised by Archie creator/ publisher/ editor John L. Goldwater and Aquirre-Sacasa is, “What if the Archie characters found themselves in a Stephen King novel like The Stand or a Sam Raimi movie like The Evil Dead?”

“We’re really going for it,” Aguirre-Sacasa told Deadlineback in March. “The first arc is called ‘Escape From Riverdale.’ The second arc is called, brace yourself, ‘Betty RIP.’”

So, you know, the family-friendly fun we’ve grown to expect and love about the 72-year-old Archie series.

“The idea for this is to capture a very truthful, authentic coming-of-age story with these kids that includes heartache, that includes pain, that will obviously temper the fun and the hijinks,” Aguirre-Sacasa tells the Associated Press. “It’s going to be a fun — hopefully — summer movie, but we’re not shying away from the truth and the awkwardness and the growing pains of being a teenager.”

Stranger crossovers in pop culture history have happened. This summer we’ll be faced with an Avengers/ Phineas & Ferb special on the Disney Channel. If an idea that outrageous can come into fruition, the Archie gang battling a few zombies will be a piece of cake. Some may say it will even be…to die for.